Office Ultimate 2007: Just $60! (for students) — Starting in 59 minutes, 35 seconds, Microsoft will begin offering Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 for students for the amazing price of just sixty dollars. This special offer for students only represents a $620 discount off the retail price of $680, a 91% savings.

THE LATEST NEWS HEADLINES—YOUR VOTE COUNTS — If someday we have a world without journalists, or at least without editors, what would the news agenda look like? How would citizens make up a front page differently than professional news people? — If a new crop of user-news sites …

The people formerly known as informed — So what happens when "the people formally known as the audience," as the citizen journalism hypesters like to say, take charge of the dissemination of news? A study released today by the Project for Excellence in Journalism provides a hint, and it's not exactly encouraging.

Microsoft sneaks 1GB of memory into new laptop mouse — Microsoft has a handful of new laptop mice the company wants you to know about this morning. And while Microsoft isn't usually the first brand name that springs to mind when you think of computer hardware (software's another story) …

New York Times Launches Facebook App — The New York Times takes a step into the social networking realm today by launching a Facebook application called the New York Times News Quiz. The simple application presents users with a daily (Monday-Friday) 5 question, multiple choice quiz …

Google secures GoogleDrive.com and updates name servers — Google already owns GDrive.com, but it's unlikely that will be the final name of the service. Like Gmail is technically "Google Mail", the real name for GDrive will likely be "Google Drive". So that got me wondering about the domain "GoogleDrive.com".

Are Technology Limits In MP3s and iPods Ruining Pop Music? — If it seems like you are listening to music more but enjoying it less, some people in the recording industry say they know why. They blame that iPod that you can't live without, along with all the compressed MP3 music files you've loaded on it.

Yahoo's Open Invitation — Like counterparts at Facebook, CEO Jerry Yang plans to give developers more leeway in building tools designed to keep users on its pages longer — Last year it was the so-called Peanut Butter Manifesto, a sharply worded internal memo from a Yahoo! (YHOO) …

First free, open, GUI iPhone unlock software tested: it works! — HaRRo over on the iPhone Dev Team has already upped the ante — just hours after the release of the first free, open source iPhone SIM unlock software, he's already got an early beta version of the graphical one-click iPhone-based software cooking.

Phone cancer doubts remain — The long-term cancer risk of mobile phone use cannot be ruled out, experts have concluded. — A major six-year research programme found a "hint" of a higher cancer risk. — But the UK Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research Programme (MTHRP) …

2007 Online Journalism Awards - Finalists — Finalists for the 8th annual Online Journalism Awards, honoring excellence in digital journalism, have been announced by the Online News Association and the USC Annenberg School for Communication. — A total of 70 finalists ranging …

The Local Search Landscape — Local search, and local online media in general, is one of the hottest topics in the industry right now. Analysts are falling over themselves to predict just how many billions of dollars in revenue local will represent in five years.

Internal Linking On Some Tech Blogs Is Out of Control — It seems the more major bloggers tend to ask for the same rights, privileges and respect given traditional journalists, the more frequently I'm seeing some of them violate best practices for information sharing and news gathering.